William Clay Ford with Continental Division Stylists and Continental Mark II Model, circa 1953

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Artifact Overview

William Clay Ford (1925-2014) was Henry Ford's grandson and the youngest of Edsel and Eleanor Clay Ford's four children. In 1952, William headed a group that designed an elegant new edition of the classic Lincoln Continental that had been developed under his father Edsel's direction. Here, William (right) inspects the progress of one of the full-sized clay models.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1953

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.833.101365.52

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 4 in
Width: 5 in

Inscriptions

Black stamps on back read, "RESTRICTED-DO NOT RELEASE", and "CONFIDENTIAL": One redundant original exists of equal size